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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 432

India
The remarkable collection formed by Marcus Samuel, FRPSL. Type numbers quoted are taken from "Specimen Stamps of British India" by Marcus Samuel, published by the India Study Circle in 1978
Stamped Papers
1830 (c.) 4a. black and red large oval inscribed "stamp office", believed to be produced by the Congreve interlocking plate process and on a piece of paper (204x152mm. roughly separated on one side) with a watermark as used for the 1854 postage stamps and thought to have been cut from a register of stamps at Somerset, parts of the piece with pencil drawings showing parts of the watermark in pencil

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